Thomas Webb has big game as Kalamazoo District 2 rolls in Big League Baseball state tourney

Mike Farrell | Special to the Kalamazoo GazetteTyler Finnup was the starting pitcher for District 2.

CENTREVILLE — Steve Graham's Kalamazoo District 2 Big League Baseball team wasn't exactly hitting the cover off the ball in the early going of Friday's state tournament opener.

Playing a little small ball helped change that.

Ryan May and Thomas Webb each executed successful suicide squeeze bunts to spark an eight-run fifth inning and District 2 rolled to a 10-1 victory against the District 6 club from suburban Detroit at Glen Oaks Community College.

"We ended up with the bases loaded on a fielder's choice that wasn't executed properly and we had two straight suicide squeezes that seemed to rattle the (District 6) boys and get us going," Graham said. "After that, we were swinging the bats real aggressively and put it away."